Absolutely. What needs to be done, and this will only be accomplished with enough international pressure, is to take control away from the US government. ICANN or no ICANN, the one in control is the US government.
Don't come with the "DARPA in the 60's" argument. It's not about what the net was 20 years ago, or 10 years ago, it's about what it's now: A worldwide network. That means it shouldn't be governed by a single country. We need to create a new council that will manage the internet:
It'll be an international council, with the following governing body:
- An official representative from each member country. - A representative from each software/hardware development that plays a major role in the net. For example, the ISC (BIND, DHCPD), The Mozilla Fundation (Firefox), CISCO, etc. would get representatives. - Other organizations and major players that are active participants of this thing we call the internet. For example, the IEEE, The Free Software Fundation, the EFF, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, etc. would get representatives.
None of this entities would get more than one representative even if they qualified on more than one category, and each representative gets one vote, and all votes count equally. We should also try to keep the amount of member from each category sort of equal, so, considering ~190 countries, we should get 190 from the other two categories, for a grand total of ~600 members.
This entity would operate under its own constitution, and act as a democracy. The technical infrastructure would be absolutely distributed around the world, with enough redundancy and no central authority.
That is the only way that we can get a truly free internet.
The US government is at war with the entire world. They are also at war with its own citizens.
They have been fabricating wars for 100 years in order to shape the political landscape as they want, to keep the Lockheed Martin's of the world profitable, to guarantee the permanent supply of expendable puppet third world countries, and to perpetuate the US role as the world's police. A police force that is as corrupt as it gets.
You guys should all read this. It's old, and if you are a valuable human being you surely know perfectly the work of the greatest old fuck in history. But anyway, here it goes. Nobody could have said it better:
George Carlin on American Foreign Policy
ROCKETS AND PENISES IN THE PERSIAN GULF
History Lesson
I'd like to talk a little about the "war" in the Persian Gulf. Biiiiig doin's in the Persian Gulf. You know my favorite part of that war? It was the first war we had that was on every channel plus cable. And, the war got good ratings too, didn't it? Got good ratings! Well, we like war!
We like war, we're a war-like people! We like war because we're good at it! You know why we're good at it? Because we get a lot of practice. This country's only 200 years old and already we've had ten major wars. We average a major war every twenty years in this country, so we're good at it! And it's a good thing we are, we're not very good at anything else anymore! Hah? Can't make a decent car, can't make a TV set or a VCR worth a fuck... got no steel industry left, can't educate our young people... can't get health care to our old people... but we can bomb the shit out of your country alright!
Especially if your country is full of brown people. Oh, we like that, don't we, that's our hobby? That's our new job in the world: bombing brown people! Iraq, Panama, Grenada, Libya - you got some brown people in your country - tell 'em to watch the fuck out... or we'll goddamn bomb them!
But when's the last white people you can remember that we bombed, can you remember -- can you remember ANY white people we've ever bombed? The Germans! They were the only ones, and that's only because they were trying to cut in on our action! They wanted to dominate the world - bullshit, that's our fuckin' job!
Now we only bomb brown people. Not because they're trying to cut in on our action, just because they're *brown*!
Now you've probably noticed I don't feel about that "war," the way we were told we were supposed to feel about that war... the way we were ordered and instructed to feel by the United States Government to feel about that war... you see, I tell ya... my mind doesn't work that way... I got this real moron thing I do - it's called, "thinking," - and I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions. I don't just "roll over" when I'm told to.
Sad to say most Americans just "roll over" [tchock] on command. Not me - I have certain rules I live by.
My first rule:
I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. Nope.
And I don't take very seriously the media or the press in this country, who, in the case of the Persian Gulf War were nothing more than unpaid employees of the Department of Defense, and who, most of the time functioned as sort of an unofficial public relations company for the United States Government.
So, I don't listen to them, I don't *really* believe in my country, and I gotta tell ya folks, I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I consider them to be symbols, and I leave symbols to the symbol-minded.
Me? I look at war a little bit differently. To me war is a lot of prick waving, ok? Simple thing, that's all it is, war is a whole lot of men standing out in a field waving their pricks at one another. Men are
I can't side with anyone on this debate. I just heard the whole speech, all 15 minutes of it, paying attention to every word.
I can't side with the cheating students, what they did was awfully wrong, stupid, unethical, and it defeats the purpose of pursuing an education. I can't side with the non-cheating students either. If you didn't cheat, the only ethical reaction here would be to stand up to that fascist idiot with the obligatory cop-stache, tell him you would not re-take the test, and then submit a note saying "I cheated too" (Or "I'm Spartacus", for comedic purposes). I can't side with the "professor" either. He's using all kind of scare-tactics in his speech, and all kind of big-brother techniques to pursue students as if they were criminals. As I said, his copstache already gives him away as the fascist he is, but the speech leaves no doubt about it.
On the other hand, the students didn't really cheat. They memorized 700 answers and questions, knowing that 50 of those would be in the exam. As unethical as that is, it's technically not cheating, and it's the schools/professors/exam-bank-makers/whoever fault. If you are so fucking conservative to realize that exams are an archaic and useless methodology to prove knowledge, so fucking squared to use multiple choice or similar exams, so fucking lazy as to write your own exam, and so fucking stupid as to let the answers leak and only find out after the exam, then you need to shut the fuck up, quit your job, and become janitor, because you aren't qualified to do much else.
I love cryptography... and I love cryptography thanks to Edgar Allan. I was obsessed with The Gold Bug as a kid. That got me into cryptography, which eventually got me into programming. Now, get me Jupiter, we have work to do:)
The answer is simple: yes. it bothers me too. when i buy something it should be completely mine. on the other hand, the manufacturer of my oven doesn't force me to buy food at their approved store, apple does ( well, it would, if I where stupid enough to buy their crap, and i'm not )
Not only is that idea absolutely ridiculous, and technically impossible given the current state (and hardware requirements) of voice recognition, but also it shows you don't understand shit about VoIP.
Audio is re-invited, meaning that Google's servers only setup the call, then RTP is established directly between the endpoints.
Exactly. Apple can do whatever the hell they want as long as they stay within the law.
I was just stating what is blatantly obvious to me: Why would any paying customer take that kind of abuse from the supplier?
I've seen that kind of abuse on a commercial transaction only in one other market: Drugs. The only person I've seen taking that kind of abuse just to get its shiny shiny fix are coke-heads at 6 A.M on a sunday.
Apple is clearly abusing its users: If you buy one of my outrageously overpriced devices, you will only be able to login as an unprivileged user, we reserve the right to login as administrators. You will be able to install applications, but only if we approve them first. We decide what apps you get and what apps you don't arbitrarily, and you have no part in that process. If you want to install an app, first you need to sign up in our store, give us all of your personal information, and you will have to give us your credit card. We are the only providers, we are a monopoly, you can't buy apps from anywhere else. Also, we'll keep 30% of what you pay for any app. We will restrict what apps you can use based on where you are, who you are, or other parameters we can arbitrarily choose later. We will actively discriminate our users. Also, your device has a kill switch, and we disable it any time we want. We also control what songs, music or other content you download, and deliberately add restrictions to those files, so they are ours, not yours.
Finally, we will add countermeasures so you can't install replace our own damn OS with your own, in an effort to keep you trapped. If you ever try, there are very high chances that our countermeasures will work and your device will become useless. We won't help you. Buy a new one.
Those are Apple's policies, and people still put up with them. That, I can't understand.
There are several mistakes in your post, and in your signature:
In your post:
1) You assume that exchange or windows actually work, they don't. 2) Real sysadmins use powerful tools with powerful CLIs. GUIs are for fags. 3) You can't be an "expert" on something so closed as windows because you know nearly nothing about it, and you can't be an "expert" on such diverse things as windows and unix. If you consider yourself an expert on both, your definition of expert is criminally insane.
In your signature:
1) All your computers belong to apple. Pay attention, you will soon see apple fuck your ass more than all the oracles and microsofts in the world ever will.
2) There is no god, so he won't be able to help you.
It ain't the same and you know it damn well. Regarding software, you need good enough software that is compliant with certain standards. In Art, there is no standards. There are no good-enough, pink-floyd-compliant bands.
So, with software, I could find Free Software that does everything I need. Software is a tool, Art isn't.
I have nothing against the artists, and I know damn well that the artists want to earn good money while reaching the audience. Right now, there are corporations in the middle screwing both the public and the artist.
The solution is to ignore the existence of this corporations by downloading whatever you want. At one point, the artists will be reaching their audience, but won't be making a profit. So they'll fire their agents and find a new, more fair way of getting paid.
Until the world changes, and we get rid of the MAFIAA, and people realise that we need to change the way we pay the authors, that copyright is broken, and that we need a new system... until that day comes, there's only one simple solution that'll let you live happy, and will let the establishment know that they are doing it wrong by the numbers:
Free Software, Pirated content.
So, get your Android device, and start working on a Cuevana extension.
I use GNU/Linux. I Don't need an AV solution. Process intercommunication is solved by standard means, namely Dbus. Only my browser runs in a different account.
I don't use Adobe Reader, I use Evince. PDF is not an exploit vector on my platform.
My browser runs as a non-privileged user on a secure Unix system. The process itself doesn't have write permission on any executable file, not even itself.
That user is != to my actual user, so it won't even get to my docs or other information. It'll only affect my browser, which can write nowhere but it's own home directory. If something like that happened, restarting my browser and killing any process it might have spawn would be enough.
Not true. I use Free Software. I was a Slackware user for ages (version 3 through 12, then I switched to Ubuntu). I trust the community. I've never gotten malware into my machine. Security bugs? Sure. They were all promptly fixed.
So, don't say that something that has been a reality for 20 years isn't possible, you sound stupid.
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Absolutely. What needs to be done, and this will only be accomplished with enough international pressure, is to take control away from the US government. ICANN or no ICANN, the one in control is the US government.
Don't come with the "DARPA in the 60's" argument. It's not about what the net was 20 years ago, or 10 years ago, it's about what it's now: A worldwide network. That means it shouldn't be governed by a single country. We need to create a new council that will manage the internet:
It'll be an international council, with the following governing body:
- An official representative from each member country.
- A representative from each software/hardware development that plays a major role in the net. For example, the ISC (BIND, DHCPD), The Mozilla Fundation (Firefox), CISCO, etc. would get representatives.
- Other organizations and major players that are active participants of this thing we call the internet. For example, the IEEE, The Free Software Fundation, the EFF, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, etc. would get representatives.
None of this entities would get more than one representative even if they qualified on more than one category, and each representative gets one vote, and all votes count equally. We should also try to keep the amount of member from each category sort of equal, so, considering ~190 countries, we should get 190 from the other two categories, for a grand total of ~600 members.
This entity would operate under its own constitution, and act as a democracy. The technical infrastructure would be absolutely distributed around the world, with enough redundancy and no central authority.
That is the only way that we can get a truly free internet.
Some really bad things, namely: Lawyers and Christians.
The US government is at war with the entire world. They are also at war with its own citizens.
They have been fabricating wars for 100 years in order to shape the political landscape as they want, to keep the Lockheed Martin's of the world profitable, to guarantee the permanent supply of expendable puppet third world countries, and to perpetuate the US role as the world's police. A police force that is as corrupt as it gets.
You guys should all read this. It's old, and if you are a valuable human being you surely know perfectly the work of the greatest old fuck in history. But anyway, here it goes. Nobody could have said it better:
George Carlin on American Foreign Policy
ROCKETS AND PENISES IN THE PERSIAN GULF
History Lesson
I'd like to talk a little about the "war" in the Persian Gulf. Biiiiig doin's in
the Persian Gulf. You know my favorite part of that war? It was the first war we
had that was on every channel plus cable. And, the war got good ratings too,
didn't it? Got good ratings! Well, we like war!
We like war, we're a war-like people! We like war because we're good at it! You ... got no steel industry left, can't ... can't get health care to our old people ... but we
know why we're good at it? Because we get a lot of practice. This country's only
200 years old and already we've had ten major wars. We average a major war every
twenty years in this country, so we're good at it! And it's a good thing we
are, we're not very good at anything else anymore! Hah? Can't make a decent car,
can't make a TV set or a VCR worth a fuck
educate our young people
can bomb the shit out of your country
alright!
Especially if your country is full of brown people. Oh, we like that, don't we, ... or we'll goddamn bomb them!
that's our hobby? That's our new job in the world: bombing brown people! Iraq,
Panama, Grenada, Libya - you got some brown people in your country - tell 'em to
watch the fuck out
But when's the last white people you can remember that we bombed, can you
remember -- can you remember ANY white people we've ever bombed? The Germans!
They were the only ones, and that's only because they were trying to cut in on
our action! They wanted to dominate the world - bullshit, that's our fuckin'
job!
Now we only bomb brown people. Not because they're trying to cut in on our
action, just because they're *brown*!
Now you've probably noticed I don't feel about that "war," the way we were told ... the way we were ordered and ... ... my mind doesn't work that way ... I got this real moron
we were supposed to feel about that war
instructed to feel by the United States Government to feel about that war
you see, I tell ya
thing I do - it's called, "thinking," - and I'm not a very good American because
I like to form my own opinions. I don't just "roll over" when I'm told to.
Sad to say most Americans just "roll over" [tchock] on command. Not me - I have
certain rules I live by.
My first rule:
I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. Nope.
And I don't take very seriously the media or the press in this country, who, in
the case of the Persian Gulf War were nothing more than unpaid employees of the
Department of Defense, and who, most of the time functioned as sort of an
unofficial public relations company for the United States Government.
So, I don't listen to them, I don't *really* believe in my country, and I gotta
tell ya folks, I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American
flags. I consider them to be symbols, and I leave symbols to the symbol-minded.
Me? I look at war a little bit differently. To me war is a lot of prick waving,
ok? Simple thing, that's all it is, war is a whole lot of men standing out in a
field waving their pricks at one another. Men are
I can't side with anyone on this debate. I just heard the whole speech, all 15 minutes of it, paying attention to every word.
I can't side with the cheating students, what they did was awfully wrong, stupid, unethical, and it defeats the purpose of pursuing an education. I can't side with the non-cheating students either. If you didn't cheat, the only ethical reaction here would be to stand up to that fascist idiot with the obligatory cop-stache, tell him you would not re-take the test, and then submit a note saying "I cheated too" (Or "I'm Spartacus", for comedic purposes). I can't side with the "professor" either. He's using all kind of scare-tactics in his speech, and all kind of big-brother techniques to pursue students as if they were criminals. As I said, his copstache already gives him away as the fascist he is, but the speech leaves no doubt about it.
On the other hand, the students didn't really cheat. They memorized 700 answers and questions, knowing that 50 of those would be in the exam. As unethical as that is, it's technically not cheating, and it's the schools/professors/exam-bank-makers/whoever fault. If you are so fucking conservative to realize that exams are an archaic and useless methodology to prove knowledge, so fucking squared to use multiple choice or similar exams, so fucking lazy as to write your own exam, and so fucking stupid as to let the answers leak and only find out after the exam, then you need to shut the fuck up, quit your job, and become janitor, because you aren't qualified to do much else.
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I love cryptography ... and I love cryptography thanks to Edgar Allan. I was obsessed with The Gold Bug as a kid. That got me into cryptography, which eventually got me into programming. Now, get me Jupiter, we have work to do :)
Uninstall windows, replace with Ubuntu.
You have to get a post before the fr1st p0st!
Dude, I'm 26 and I recognize all DTMF tones (well, except ABCD, only 0-9 * #). I can also recognize pulse dialing, and dial using just the hook.
The answer is simple: yes. it bothers me too. when i buy something it should be completely mine. on the other hand, the manufacturer of my oven doesn't force me to buy food at their approved store, apple does ( well, it would, if I where stupid enough to buy their crap, and i'm not )
The difference is that you can't fire apple.
Not only is that idea absolutely ridiculous, and technically impossible given the current state (and hardware requirements) of voice recognition, but also it shows you don't understand shit about VoIP.
Audio is re-invited, meaning that Google's servers only setup the call, then RTP is established directly between the endpoints.
So much win.
Exactly. Apple can do whatever the hell they want as long as they stay within the law.
I was just stating what is blatantly obvious to me: Why would any paying customer take that kind of abuse from the supplier?
I've seen that kind of abuse on a commercial transaction only in one other market: Drugs. The only person I've seen taking that kind of abuse just to get its shiny shiny fix are coke-heads at 6 A.M on a sunday.
Apple is clearly abusing its users: If you buy one of my outrageously overpriced devices, you will only be able to login as an unprivileged user, we reserve the right to login as administrators. You will be able to install applications, but only if we approve them first. We decide what apps you get and what apps you don't arbitrarily, and you have no part in that process. If you want to install an app, first you need to sign up in our store, give us all of your personal information, and you will have to give us your credit card. We are the only providers, we are a monopoly, you can't buy apps from anywhere else. Also, we'll keep 30% of what you pay for any app. We will restrict what apps you can use based on where you are, who you are, or other parameters we can arbitrarily choose later. We will actively discriminate our users. Also, your device has a kill switch, and we disable it any time we want. We also control what songs, music or other content you download, and deliberately add restrictions to those files, so they are ours, not yours.
Finally, we will add countermeasures so you can't install replace our own damn OS with your own, in an effort to keep you trapped. If you ever try, there are very high chances that our countermeasures will work and your device will become useless. We won't help you. Buy a new one.
Those are Apple's policies, and people still put up with them. That, I can't understand.
There are several mistakes in your post, and in your signature:
In your post:
1) You assume that exchange or windows actually work, they don't.
2) Real sysadmins use powerful tools with powerful CLIs. GUIs are for fags.
3) You can't be an "expert" on something so closed as windows because you know nearly nothing about it, and you can't be an "expert" on such diverse things as windows and unix. If you consider yourself an expert on both, your definition of expert is criminally insane.
In your signature:
1) All your computers belong to apple. Pay attention, you will soon see apple fuck your ass more than all the oracles and microsofts in the world ever will.
2) There is no god, so he won't be able to help you.
Well, we can use South Park for this one (The Simpsons already did it)
Exactly my thoughts.
How about this for an answer: Real sysadmins don't do windows, so I have no idea about half of the answers, and don't want to know?
It ain't the same and you know it damn well. Regarding software, you need good enough software that is compliant with certain standards. In Art, there is no standards. There are no good-enough, pink-floyd-compliant bands.
So, with software, I could find Free Software that does everything I need. Software is a tool, Art isn't.
I have nothing against the artists, and I know damn well that the artists want to earn good money while reaching the audience. Right now, there are corporations in the middle screwing both the public and the artist.
The solution is to ignore the existence of this corporations by downloading whatever you want. At one point, the artists will be reaching their audience, but won't be making a profit. So they'll fire their agents and find a new, more fair way of getting paid.
You shouldn't be using netflix anyway.
Until the world changes, and we get rid of the MAFIAA, and people realise that we need to change the way we pay the authors, that copyright is broken, and that we need a new system ... until that day comes, there's only one simple solution that'll let you live happy, and will let the establishment know that they are doing it wrong by the numbers:
Free Software, Pirated content.
So, get your Android device, and start working on a Cuevana extension.
Except if you run windows. In that case, you can be 100% sure that the results are incorrect ;)
Dude, what are you running, windows?
I use GNU/Linux. I Don't need an AV solution. Process intercommunication is solved by standard means, namely Dbus. Only my browser runs in a different account.
I don't use Adobe Reader, I use Evince. PDF is not an exploit vector on my platform.
Your problem is crappy software, get rid of it.
My browser runs as a non-privileged user on a secure Unix system. The process itself doesn't have write permission on any executable file, not even itself.
That user is != to my actual user, so it won't even get to my docs or other information. It'll only affect my browser, which can write nowhere but it's own home directory. If something like that happened, restarting my browser and killing any process it might have spawn would be enough.
Come on dude.
Use a modern, secure operating system. Use only free software that has been reviewed by the community. Peer-reviewing works, you know?
I only use Free Software. We review everything that goes in those repositories. It's simple, and it works.
Don't use privative software, don't download from untrustworthy sources. Easy.
Not true. I use Free Software. I was a Slackware user for ages (version 3 through 12, then I switched to Ubuntu). I trust the community. I've never gotten malware into my machine. Security bugs? Sure. They were all promptly fixed.
So, don't say that something that has been a reality for 20 years isn't possible, you sound stupid.